Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

Meditation is not just about sitting quietly, it's about transforming the mind.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves.

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

The mind is like a room with many windows. Open them all and let the fresh air in.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

The best way to solve a problem is to help someone else solve their problem.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.